Space in motion

Menu

ATOMIC SPACE TOOLS

Atomic Space Tools is an offshoot of Atomic Space Navy. While AST started to as part of ASN development I am of the belief that it is of use to science fiction enthusiasts and creators, and potentially as part of a science education.

Orbit Toy is a gravitational simulation that can take editable system definitions and simulate them out for hundreds or thousands of years. It has been tested against NASA data on the solar system over a century, and while it may not be up to planning actual missions it does appear to be stable and closely resemble reality if not exactly match it. Orbit Toy allows for graphical viewing of a system as it evolves, or for command line usage with options that can be used to get interesting data out of long runs.

System Builder is a tool for designing new systems for use in Orbit Toy from Kepler orbital elements, with a GUI that does the hard math for you rather than hand editing position and velocity values.

Atomic Space Tools contains documentation explaining its use and several example solar systems, both real and fictional, to get you started. If the documentation is insufficient or the program flawed, feel free to contact me and I”ll do what I can to correct any issues.